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“But at night we began dreaming of Man's perfect world without humanity (57)”
― Walter Mosley

“In Tulsa, a girl would no sooner have run around with unstraightened hair than she would have run around naked. It would have been worse than running around naked, letting everyone see your naps (40).”
― Martha Southgate, Third Girl from the Left

“In March 1955, Powell called for a boycott of Harlem savings banks that "practice 'Jim Crow-ism' and 'economic lynching.'" He urged Abyssinian Baptist Church's fifteen thousand members to withdraw their funds from white-woned banks and transfer them to either the black-owned Carver Federal Savings in Harlem or the black-owned Tri-State Bank in Memphis, Tennessee (108).”
― Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

“Your people have lost the vision and vitality of your ancestors (73).”
― Walter Mosley